out of the box

    We as a community in India need to look at a better way of channeling services equitably to everyone. Poverty line seems to be a concept that attempts to provide some minimum service to the poorest. Maybe we should consider the system of providing essential services to the community without looking at their poverty status. Like, it is essential that everyone eat enough food to get the right amount of energy. Are we sure that people above poverty line are eating enough food? We assumed that by virtue of being poor people don't eat enough food. But it is also true that those who aren't getting enough energy for the day may be working too hard without optimum amount of breaks so that even though the person is earning to put average amount of food on his table, his energy requirement is far greater and the problem is not in the amount of food then, the problem is in his work- duration at a stretch.  So, even though he seems to be above poverty line from an income point of view, there are non-economic factors in his life that make him live a compromised life.
     Does it sound too expensive? Impossible? Vague?
     Let collective thinking begin.